Shechem, a Canaanite town located north of Jerusalem, is first mentioned in Genesis when Abraham offered a sacrifice and built an altar there. However, it is perhaps most infamously known as the place where Jacob’s daughter, Dinah, was tragically raped.
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Site of the tomb of Joseph at Nablus. Colored lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
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